The lost wilderness : rediscovering W.F. Ganong's New Brunswick / Nicholas Guitard.

Main entry:

Guitard, Nicholas, 1956- author.

Title & Author:

The lost wilderness : rediscovering W.F. Ganong's New Brunswick / Nicholas Guitard.

Publication:

Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, [2015]
©2015

Description:

229 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Includes an errata laid in.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"For more than 50 years, William Francis Ganong explored the wilderness of New Brunswick to document its natural history. The importance of his work is well understood by academics studying natural history or cartography, but for the most part, it is unknown to the general public. The intention of this book is to provide a photographic and narrative account of a selection of Ganong's reports to the Natural History Society of New Brunswick through first-hand research and fieldwork. For the most part, I have attempted to find the exact locations in which Ganong may have stood when he conducted barometric readings to measure the height of mountain or a series of compass bearings to triangulate a particular location to a known reference point. Poring over his sketched maps and reports, and aided by current topographical maps and Google Earth, I identified coordinates and routes that would guide me to the various sites. Always the advocate, I usually invited friends along, for safety as well as to spread the word about Ganong. With field notes, maps, GPS, compass and, most important, my camera equipment, we tramped through some pretty tough forest, across brooks, in streams, slogged through wet meadows and down steep mountainsides, in pursuit of the best photographs to illustrate the physiographic elements that Ganong documented."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780864928771 (paperback)
0864928777
9780864928344
0864928343
9780864928351
0864928351

Subject:

Ganong, William F. (William Francis), 1864-1941.
Guitard, Nicholas, 1956- Travel New Brunswick.
Guitard, Nicholas, 1956- Voyages Nouveau-Brunswick.
Natural History Society of New Brunswick.
Natural history New Brunswick.
Natural history New Brunswick Pictorial works.
Cartography New Brunswick History 20th century.
Sciences naturelles Nouveau-Brunswick.
Sciences naturelles Nouveau-Brunswick Ouvrages illustrés.
Cartographie Nouveau-Brunswick Histoire 20e siècle.
Cartography
Geography
Natural history
Travel
New Brunswick Geography.
New Brunswick Description and travel.
Nouveau-Brunswick Géographie.
Nouveau-Brunswick Descriptions et voyages.
New Brunswick

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
History
Illustrated works

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 290838
Call No.: QH21.C2 G8 2015
Status: Available

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